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Message: <blockquote data-quote="robaustin" data-source="post: 1788604" data-attributes="member: 2703">There is not a PC version.I'll try and describe - but keep in mind when ANYONE has had this game described to them- they think it's the dubest concept they have ever heard of.Basically, you move a little guy around who is pushing a ball called a "Katamari."  Things stick to the Katamari, so as you roll it past things - thumbtack, push pins, etc...  stick to it.  You start out small, picking up these small things.  As the ball gets biggers, it's more cumbersome to move around.  The object of each level is to "roll up" stuff to make the ball a certain size.  In the first few levels it's just little stuff.  As the levels go on, the stuff gets bigger until you are finally rolling up houses, cars, etc..Yeah I said it sounds like the dumbest game in the world.  But there is something amazingly satisfying about playing it.  The controls are pure and simple - you use both analog sticks like you're driving a tank.  There is nothing else to know.Why is it so cool and addictive?  Because it has this style - that quirky japanese style - from the simple yet weird graphics to the catchy theme song and music throughout the game.  It harkens back to when games were simpler - and you didn't have to do much to learn how to play them.  Yeah, there are special things in the levels - and other special levels and stuff to discover.  But at its base all you really need to do is roll around, pick stuff up and make your ball bigger within a certain time limit.  That's it.It's kind of like describing old games - say I tried to tell you about Pac Man.  I'd say "You're this Yellow Dot with a mouth and you have to go around eating little white dots.  You're being chased by ghosts and when you eat a power pellet you can eat the ghosts."  Sounds purely dumb in today's game environment.  But even now, Pac-Man is still satisfying.  And in that way - Katamari Damacy is too.It has a two player head to head version as well.  Also- it's totally family friendly - which so few games are these days.You have GOT to play this game if you have a PS2.  Get it.  Now.  Go!--*Rob</blockquote>

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